Background

Mr. Grover G. Jackson is a Director at Greater Houston Partnership. Mr. Jackson is currently serving as Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Harris County-Houston Sports Authority. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer at Spinel Capital, LLC. From 1977 to 1996, Mr. Jackson held various positions with the Coca-Cola Company including Senior Real Estate Counsel with legal responsibility for the real estate owned by the Company; Vice President, General ... Counsel, and Member of the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola Bottling Enterprises Inc.; and Senior Vice President and General Counsel at Coca-Cola Foods in Houston, Texas (now the Minute Maid Company). Prior to the Coca-Cola Company, he was the Executive Vice President and General Counsel of a venture capital firm in Boston, prior to which Mr. Jackson was a Tax and Business Attorney with at Gaston Snow & Ely Bartlett, also in Boston. Mr. Jackson served as a captain in the United States Air Force from 1967 to 1971. In addition, he is a member of the Board of Visitors of Boston University School of Law, the President of the Board of Trustees of the Houston Foundation (the Board of Public Trusts), a member of the Board of Directors of the Houston Music Hall Foundation, and a member of the Executive Committees of the Boards of Directors of The Center for Houston's Future and the Houston 2012 Foundation. Mr. Jackson's other board appointments have included: The Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County, from 1987 to 1990, where he served as Chairman of its Finance and Administration Committee; Leadership Houston, The Houston Symphony Orchestra, The Houston Area Red Cross, The Houston Area Urban League, and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Mr. Jackson was a Director and the first President and Executive Director of Americans for Fair Taxation. He is a senior fellow of the American Leadership Forum, Houston/Gulf Coast Chapter Class XIX. In 2001, Mr. Jackson was designated a ‘Legend of Texas’ and his name added to the Legends of Texas bridge in Georgetown, Texas. He holds a B.A. degree in Political Science from Drake University in 1963.

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